Iplayer no longer working over bridge 'handset not supported'

I'm certain iplayer use different to work over bridge to my bold 9900, now I get the,'handset not supported over 3g message'

I'm on virgin UK, I may have been on o2 when I used this before but this is a real blow, I intended to use my bold and playbook on bridge when we move as adsl there will be 1meg! Infinity due in a few months though ;-)

Anyone else having this problem? I also tried using phone as wireless hotspot and a separate mifi device so maybe it's a carrier issue

If memory serves, the BBC only allow certain devices to access on 3G, so check to see what they say on their website. They may have changed it, or it may be that it now reads it as an Android device given the mobile launcher.

One way of testing that is to access the full desktop iPlayer through Simple Browser and see if that works with the phone bridged. Something seems to have changed with the launcher because I think I used to be able to access HD content and now I can't - except through the desktop site.

Thanks for the tip on simplebrowser will give that a go, what browser does it report as ?

You get a choice. If you go to Settings and then Set User Agent you have a choice. Firefox makes it default to the desktop version of the iPlayer, I haven't tried all the others though, but I guess some will too.

Iplayer no longer working over bridge 'handset not supported'

I think the app on the blackberry playbook is just using the native browser (or just a shortcut) and they block specific browser I'd's as their site says it will only work with the android and ios apps and setting the browser I'd's to those platforms didn't work.

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